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Quarries Partnership Team

Dust Initiative

The quarries partnership team members have been drawn from across the quarrying industry and have agreed to work together and/or independently to further increase the awareness of the risks associated with the inhalation of dust within the quarrying industry and continue to promote good control practices.

Purpose

To reduce the incidence of respiratory disease in workers within the quarrying industry by further raising awareness of the risks of exposure via inhalation, to hazardous dusts in the workplace.

To improve workers' knowledge concerning exposure to dust in the workplace

To share, promote and encourage good control practices in the workplace

To bring about a change in attitudes and behaviours to workplace 'dust'.

Please click on statement for further information including the partners involved and the scope of the project.

QPT/QNJAC Dust - Quarries Good Housekeeping Initiative

Sign up to our Statement of Commitment to demonstrate that your organisation is committed to improving on-site housekeeping practices. Preventing or reducing settled dust will lead to improved working practices and a reduced incidence of respiratory ill health.